dpb

Came past 'rather quickly' , out of town - then braked quite hard on entering town

Im not actually sure it had a siren at all and the flashers were part of the headlamp arrangement fron and rear , other and inclucing this no indication it wasnt jo public


wondered who it was

dpb

actually i think it did have a siren - one of those buzzy things ( not strapped to the roof )

scunnered

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Its possible it might just be a member of the public. The lights and sirens are easy to buy on the internet.
Around here, the "retained" firemen have them on there private cars so as they can get to the station as quick as possible when their bleeper goes off.

dpb

That would make sense ( didnt look like the filth ) - poeple shifted over for him

richie001

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Gloucestershire Police have a Black Audi,seen it loads of times mainly on the M5.

billythekid

Every man and his dog has unmarked cars now.
In the good old days it would just be traffic and their associates.
These days you have all sorts, proactive, specialists, officers cars, response cars etc etc etc. And thats just the police. Then you have medical, fire, military, coast guard, forestry, etc etc etc. Not that many of those would use a black Audi.

On top of that you have other approved "Blue Light Users" which can include SJA, other oddball medics and quite a few others.

There are still others but this is not the place.

Leslie

I thought that blue lights on anything other than a public service vehicle was strictly illegal. I sometimes wonder how those blokes with blue leds all over their cars get away with it.

Les

Jerome

A mate of mine is in SOCA and he is often driving around in unmarked cars fitted with blues and twos.

He also has a device, normally residing in the boot, that fits on his dash for his personal car with blue lights etc.

J4CKO

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Nah, its the next Gen Audi running lamps.

**** coming through, out of the way, wooooo, nee nar

richs2891

Several police forces inc Manchester run black A3's as unmarked cars, they have the blue lights in the grille as well as the alternating headlight flashers.

Richard

Dan Gleebits

seen a black Audi in/out of the Police M/way Cam centre near J3 of the M5 quite a few times

Bonehead

Lincs Pold have a black unmarked A3. I've heard it goes into other force areas when they have cross border jobs running.

Where are you?

dpb

Sussex . and it was up to date saloon

ALi-B

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Funny, I saw one today:

Was a plain black A6 with a stick on magnetic blue-tit (undercover cop stylee), think it was a v6 TDi by the sounds of it. So I doubt it was a pursuit car, probably drugs, SOC or maybe customs etc.